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The Model Husband (1959)

The Model Husband poster
Original title
Der Mustergatte
Directed by
Karl Suter
Genre
comedy film
Country
Switzerland
Runtime
1h 37m
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A husband tries to keep his marriage happy but his plans go wrong. The comedy follows his attempts to avoid trouble with his wife.

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What happens

The Model Husband (German: Der Mustergatte) is a 1959 Swiss comedy film directed by Karl Suter and starring Walter Roderer, Silvia Frank and Hannes Schmidhauser. It is a remake of the 1937 film The Model Husband, which was itself based on a 1915 play Fair and Warmer by Avery Hopwood. Another version The Model Husband had been made in West Germany in 1956. It is Suter's directorial debut. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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